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+Flickr has rolled out a bigger and better slideshow feature. The new Flickr slideshows have larger photos and overlay text for titles and descriptions. The also run against a somewhat classier black background. 
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+The new slideshows are already live and the links can be found next to sets, groups and pools of photographs when you're browsing the site. 
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+The Flickr blog [humorously summarizes][1] the new features thusly:
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+>Old Version -- sucks
+New Version --  rules!
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+The new version does offer a couple nice changes. There are now speed settings, slow, medium and fast that control how long each images is viewed. Hovering over an image displays an info icon and clicking the icon will show the title and description of each image.
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+There's also a couple new quick links to jump to the users main page or that photo's main page.
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+Unfortunately neither of those links worked in Firefox when I tested the new slideshows.
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+The best change is the larger images. I'll confess that I rarely used the old slideshow features because they defaulted to such small images. The new version uses an image size that seems slightly larger than the standard "medium" size images.
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+To see the new slideshow features in action, check out the [24 hours of Flickr][2] slideshow.
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+[1]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/05/announcing_slid.html "New Slideshow Features"
+[2]: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr/pool/show/ "24 hours of Flickr Slideshow"
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+MySpace has announced it will acquire Photobucket for $250 million, officially bringing the photo sharing site into the MySpace fold. Photobucket has been looking for a buyer for several months and after a dispute last month which led to [MySpace blocking Photobucket images and video][3], the two companies apparently hashed out a deal.
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+For more coverage of the business angles, check out Epicenter which [covered the rumors][1] that surfaced yesterday regarding the buyout.
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+At the risk of being alarmist, Photobucket as a MySpace property doesn't bode well for users who aren't fans of Rubert Murdoch's underage playground. 
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+Techcrunch [reports][4] that roughly 1.8 million of Photobucket’s visitors don't currently visit MySpace, and for them the deal could ruin sharing on non-MySpace properties. While no plans have yet been announced, it seems likely that Photobucket could morph into a MySpace-only property.
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+For those Photobucket users thinking it might be time to do more with your photos, have a look at our [Flickr coverage of late][2]. 
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+While Photobucket is primarily about hosting your images, Flickr offers a number of options that go far beyond image hosting, enabling you to share your images with the internet at large.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/rumor_control_m.html "Rumor Control: MySpace Takes Photobucket?"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/yahoo_photos_us.html "Here Are 4 Reasons You'll Love Flickr"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/myspace_is_bloc.html "MySpace Is Blocking Photobucket Videos"
+[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/07/myspacephotobucket-user-overlap-is-nearly-100/ "MySpace/Photobucket: User Overlap Is Nearly 100%"
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+Is the Pirate Bay a front for right wing extremists in Sweden? Yesterday our [Epicenter blog][1], linked to an interesting YouTube video in which Tobias Andersson of The Pirate Bay if asked to defend the site against charges that Carl Lundstrom, former CEO of Rix Telecom and "well-known right-wing extremist in Sweden," funded the early development of the site. [video after the jump]
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+Interesting, it turns out that Pirate Bay did take money for bandwidth and servers from Lundstrom, who, as Epicenter says, is probably going to end up being an MPAA/RIAA target at some point.
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+Since the Pirate Bay recently launched a music download site, [playble.com][2], it seems fairly obvious what Lundstrom's interests are -- the Pirate Bay as a viable business.
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+But given the amount of credibility the Pirate Bay has among many internet users for its supposedly "anarchist" and populist leanings, will this mean that users and supporters start to question their loyalty to the site?
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+What's more, why take money from a known right wing extremist in the first place? Andersson never does answer that question in the video. If you're Pirate Bay user, how do you feel about these revelations? 
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+Let us know in the comments below.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/swedish_journal.html "Swedish Journalist Exposes Pirate Bay Big Business Links"
+[2]: http://playble.com/ "Playble.com"
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+Sun has announced it will start supporting OpenID, but with a unique twist. Sun won't be offering a consumer solution, rather it's starting with its own employees. 
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+With Microsoft, Yahoo, AOl and others embracing openID one might wonder why Sun's rather limited foray warrants attention, but the difference is in [how Sun is using OpenID][4]. Tim Bray [writes][5] on his blog:
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+>Unfortunately, at the moment, it isn't good for much, because the OpenID might be pointing at a server that's evil or silly. It's good enough for blog comments and that's about it.
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+>What's more interesting is that we're rolling out an OpenID provider, but with a twist: You can't get an OpenID there unless you're a Sun employee, and if someone offers an OpenID whose URI is there, and it authenticates, you can be really sure that they're a Sun employee. It doesn't tell you their name or address or anything else; that's up to the individual to provide (or not). The authentication relies on our Access Manager product, and it's pretty strong; employees here have to use those crypto-magic SecureCard token generators for serious authentication, passwords aren't good enough. 
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+Sun is the first company to use OpenID as an employee tool. Others, like [Microsoft's OpenId support in Vista][3], are consumer tools used primarily by the bleeding edge of the techno elite. And as Bray points out, most consumer tools are problematic in an enterprise system.
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+But what Sun is doing could well move OpenID from handy tool for those in know, to something with real world practicality for companies concerned about security, yet wanting to keep the process of verifying identity simple and easy-to-use.
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+With more companies eyeing online enterprise apps as a viable solution, something like Sun's OpenID project is fast becoming a necessity.
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+And Sun has long history of pioneering moves in the digital identity realm. From the [Liberty Alliance project][1] to today's OpenID announcement, Sun has long led the way for companies and others looking to establish secure and effective ways of managing identity.
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+[via [O'Reilly Radar][2]]
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+[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_alliance "Liberty Alliance"
+[2]: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/sun_supports_op.html "Sun Supports OpenID: Steps Towards Enterprise?"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsoft_to_su.html "Microsoft To Support OpenID"
+[4]: http://developers.sun.com/identity/ "Identity Management - Sun Java System Access Manager"
+[5]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/05/07/OpenID-at-Sun "OpenID at Sun"
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+Ubuntu Linux is coming to a mobile device near you. Earlier this week CTO Matt Zimmerman announced plans to build a mobile version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. In the announcement, Zimmerman specifically mentions the new low-power processor from Intel, code-named Silverthorn, which will allow full internet use on mobile devices.
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+Ubuntu's [announcement][1] comes just a month after the GNOME foundation, which makes the desktop environment used by Ubuntu, announced a similar mobile platform proposal. Like the the [GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative][2], the Ubuntu plan will see developers working closely with Intel and other hardware manufacturers.
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+With [Dell now shipping Ubuntu pre-installed][3] on a number of its laptop computers and the new drive into mobile computing, Ubuntu seems poised to become the first mainstream success for the Linux community.
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+But the mobile platform presents some new challenges for Ubuntu developers, including the need for an intuitive and easy-to-se graphical interface, something critics frequently cite as a shortcoming of Linux systems.
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+The mobile edition of Ubuntu is scheduled for release in October, alongside a new version the regular Ubuntu distribution.
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+[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-May/000289.html "Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition"
+[2]: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/3056 "The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/ubuntu_fiesty_f.html "Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn Coming to Dell Laptops"
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+µTorrent users have another way to manage their downloads thanks to a new Window Vista gadget. The µTorrent gadget for Windows Vista's sidebar works in combination with the µTorrent WebUI, which can be [downloaded from the µTorrent forums][1].
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+The gadget gives a quick glimpse of your current upload and download speed in Vista's sidebar. Clicking for the extended view will show all the torrents currently downloading, including detailed info like seed and peer numbers, D/U ratio, D/U limits, and more.
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+Installing the WebUI component of µTorrent is a little tricky. The RAR file that you can grab from the forums will contain a zip file which you will need to drop into your µTorrent settings folder.
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+Then when you launch µTorrent head to preferences >> advanced and click to reveal the additional options. 
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+You should then see a WebUI option. Set the user and password for WebUI access and then [download the Vista gadget][2]. Fill in the appropriate info and it should work.
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+Discovered via [TorrentFreak][3].
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+[1]: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=14565 "WebUI v0.310 Public beta 2"
+[2]: http://gadget.flagcreator.org/gadgets/utorrent.gadget "µTorrent Vista gadget"
+[3]: http://torrentfreak.com/utorrents-vista-sidebar-gadget/ "uTorrent’s Vista Sidebar Gadget"
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